- About me
- I solely maintain and develop plotly's R package (part time).
- PhD in statistics from Iowa State University (ABD).
- Expert in the intersection of R, web technologies, and data visualization.
- Novice disease outbreak analyst.
- Why R?
- R is a free and open-source statistical programming language.
- A huge community:
- Over 9000 user contributed packages currently on CRAN (best source for latest statistical methodology)
- The package surveillance implements outbreak detection methods from 13 different publications!
- Numerous organization support R development (R Consortium, RStudio, rOpenSci, etc)